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*i once had a girl from poland over, gave her the tourism of london, a daughter of my mother's friend.* i suffered sun stroke one day out with her, blonde hair and all, i was bound to feel the cold shivers, went to a party with a school-friend of mine and her... i was left in a bed shivering, he later said he didn't want to say it but did, that they kissed... like i didn't know the shorthand for oral *** now i'm drinking a beer, write one poem weeping, another like this one laughing prior, slapping myself in the cheek... two slaps to the face i didn't receive from prostitutes **** your moral relativism, you people only know that theft and ****** and **** are equal in the cauldron of einstein's space-and-time, i accept physical relativism, but i loath moral relativism, it's like giving an umbrella to the man under a champagne waterfall - and an anorak to a man under a waterfall of cow **** - yep, slaps outside the brothel, the kind women became knights' sparring partners for the oath undertaken, it was a practice among knights to get a handkerchief to ease the sting later... but when prostitutes don't slap you for trying to sort your life in order to provide, you sort of become two knights, twin siamese, you slap yourself because all that st. thomas gospel wisdom went into sex-augmentation procedures and cheap cancer victims with pill-for-pill profiteering... leisurely ladies of societies made rich by easy money, watching operas but still preferring to notice what their neighbours were wearing, the peasant snobism who are more distracted by what others wear rather than the music... a herd of wilder-beasts could ease out more tears at an opera than these "precious" ladies of the new post-aristocratic society of easy money... you drink beer, laugh, slap yourself silly on the cheeks for more laughter... your brain becomes a monkey in a cage gone mad rather than turning docile... so she came over and enjoyed my company, spotted a fox in an alley to a surprise... but then i got rudely told that oral *** was a kiss... well **** me there's a cataphract - let's ***** slap him silly so no byzantine philosopher cared to exist.
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Mar 31, 2016
Mar 31, 2016 at 8:37 PM UTC
the 2nd age of chivalry
*i once had a girl from poland over, gave her the tourism of london, a daughter of my mother's friend.* i suffered sun stroke one day out with her, blonde hair and all, i was bound to feel the cold shivers, went to a party with a school-friend of mine and her... i was left in a bed shivering, he later said he didn't want to say it but did, that they kissed... like i didn't know the shorthand for oral *** now i'm drinking a beer, write one poem weeping, another like this one laughing prior, slapping myself in the cheek... two slaps to the face i didn't receive from prostitutes **** your moral relativism, you people only know that theft and ****** and **** are equal in the cauldron of einstein's space-and-time, i accept physical relativism, but i loath moral relativism, it's like giving an umbrella to the man under a champagne waterfall - and an anorak to a man under a waterfall of cow **** - yep, slaps outside the brothel, the kind women became knights' sparring partners for the oath undertaken, it was a practice among knights to get a handkerchief to ease the sting later... but when prostitutes don't slap you for trying to sort your life in order to provide, you sort of become two knights, twin siamese, you slap yourself because all that st. thomas gospel wisdom went into sex-augmentation procedures and cheap cancer victims with pill-for-pill profiteering... leisurely ladies of societies made rich by easy money, watching operas but still preferring to notice what their neighbours were wearing, the peasant snobism who are more distracted by what others wear rather than the music... a herd of wilder-beasts could ease out more tears at an opera than these "precious" ladies of the new post-aristocratic society of easy money... you drink beer, laugh, slap yourself silly on the cheeks for more laughter... your brain becomes a monkey in a cage gone mad rather than turning docile... so she came over and enjoyed my company, spotted a fox in an alley to a surprise... but then i got rudely told that oral *** was a kiss... well **** me there's a cataphract - let's ***** slap him silly so no byzantine philosopher cared to exist.
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the night of the fake dead has become eternal (i will wear Susan Lucci's face for it) staggering through excesses unknown and the uncertainty of this ranking system, you tried to eat my earlobe but lost interest in it quickly. your scent safe in this butterfly net, i am surrounded by the murderous howls of your perennial buttercups, determined to tempt my animal ******* instincts.      (enuma elish la nabu shamamu)      (shapiltu ammatum shuma la zakrat) i have tripped in the garden of Eve's desire and felt torrents across my cheeks of alternating salt and sugar-sweet nectar. i have held the red locks of wort and danced on the blossom-littered ground in remembrance of wandered attention.      (When in the heights heaven had not been named)      (and below, firm ground had not been called...) i have wept in the shadow of Adam's twin towers and seen the rift between the continents ebb and fall under silence's blanket. i have leathered my skin under this star to defend my eyes and tongue from the bite of the turtle goddess. i have seen the feast of the water, devouring the naked soil of Pangea, and tasted its salt with my eyes. i have undertaken the toil of the shaduf, churning mud and planting seeds for the return of the floral messiah.      (Amaru baur rata)      (Shagane Ir Imshi) i have borne the yoke of the oxen and reaped stalks of wheat in the summer's first harvest i have broken bread with companions under starlight mixed embers glowing log light orange dynamo      (The Flood swept thereover)      (His heart was filled with tears) Will you scream for me? Can you profess the holiness of my mission? My name, my motif, echoes across the ages... Siaynoq! Siaynoq! Siaynoq! In the end we are called upon by stronger forces, blank expressions, glassy eyes Siaynoq! Siaynoq! Siaynoq! the cold of the world's knife, pressed against the flesh of our selves, unconscious rhythm heartbeat pounding twisted sense rhumba of a thousand tiny shards Siaynoq! Call me to a greater purpose Siaynoq! Spill my blood across the sand
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Sep 28, 2013
Sep 28, 2013 at 7:01 PM UTC
The Creation of Man
the night of the fake dead has become eternal (i will wear Susan Lucci's face for it) staggering through excesses unknown and the uncertainty of this ranking system, you tried to eat my earlobe but lost interest in it quickly. your scent safe in this butterfly net, i am surrounded by the murderous howls of your perennial buttercups, determined to tempt my animal ******* instincts.      (enuma elish la nabu shamamu)      (shapiltu ammatum shuma la zakrat) i have tripped in the garden of Eve's desire and felt torrents across my cheeks of alternating salt and sugar-sweet nectar. i have held the red locks of wort and danced on the blossom-littered ground in remembrance of wandered attention.      (When in the heights heaven had not been named)      (and below, firm ground had not been called...) i have wept in the shadow of Adam's twin towers and seen the rift between the continents ebb and fall under silence's blanket. i have leathered my skin under this star to defend my eyes and tongue from the bite of the turtle goddess. i have seen the feast of the water, devouring the naked soil of Pangea, and tasted its salt with my eyes. i have undertaken the toil of the shaduf, churning mud and planting seeds for the return of the floral messiah.      (Amaru baur rata)      (Shagane Ir Imshi) i have borne the yoke of the oxen and reaped stalks of wheat in the summer's first harvest i have broken bread with companions under starlight mixed embers glowing log light orange dynamo      (The Flood swept thereover)      (His heart was filled with tears) Will you scream for me? Can you profess the holiness of my mission? My name, my motif, echoes across the ages... Siaynoq! Siaynoq! Siaynoq! In the end we are called upon by stronger forces, blank expressions, glassy eyes Siaynoq! Siaynoq! Siaynoq! the cold of the world's knife, pressed against the flesh of our selves, unconscious rhythm heartbeat pounding twisted sense rhumba of a thousand tiny shards Siaynoq! Call me to a greater purpose Siaynoq! Spill my blood across the sand
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The birches are mad with green points the wood’s edge is burning with their green, burning, seething—No, no, no. The birches are opening their leaves one by one. Their delicate leaves unfold cold and separate, one by one. Slender tassels hang swaying from the delicate branch tips— Oh, I cannot say it. There is no word. Black is split at once into flowers. In every bog and ditch, flares of small fire, white flowers!—Agh, the birches are mad, mad with their green. The world is gone, torn into shreds with this blessing. What have I left undone that I should have undertaken? O my brother, you redfaced, living man ignorant, stupid whose feet are upon this same dirt that I touch—and eat. We are alone in this terror, alone, face to face on this road, you and I, wrapped by this flame! Let the polished plows stay idle, their gloss already on the black soil. But that face of yours—! Answer me. I will clutch you. I will hug you, grip you. I will poke my face into your face and force you to see me. Take me in your arms, tell me the commonest thing that is in your mind to say, say anything. I will understand you—! It is the madness of the birch leaves opening cold, one by one. My rooms will receive me. But my rooms are no longer sweet spaces where comfort is ready to wait on me with its crumbs. A darkness has brushed them. The mass of yellow tulips in the bowl is shrunken. Every familiar object is changed and dwarfed. I am shaken, broken against a might that splits comfort, blows apart my careful partitions, crushes my house and leaves me—with shrinking heart and startled, empty eyes—peering out into a cold world. In the spring I would be drunk! In the spring I would be drunk and lie forgetting all things. Your face! Give me your face, Yang Kue Fei! your hands, your lips to drink! Give me your wrists to drink— I drag you, I am drowned in you, you overwhelm me! Drink! Save me! The shad bush is in the edge of the clearing. The yards in a fury of lilac blossoms are driving me mad with terror. Drink and lie forgetting the world. And coldly the birch leaves are opening one by one. Coldly I observe them and wait for the end. And it ends.
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The birches are mad with green points the wood’s edge is burning with their green, burning, seething—No, no, no. The birches are opening their leaves one by one. Their delicate leaves unfold cold and separate, one by one. Slender tassels hang swaying from the delicate branch tips— Oh, I cannot say it. There is no word. Black is split at once into flowers. In every bog and ditch, flares of small fire, white flowers!—Agh, the birches are mad, mad with their green. The world is gone, torn into shreds with this blessing. What have I left undone that I should have undertaken? O my brother, you redfaced, living man ignorant, stupid whose feet are upon this same dirt that I touch—and eat. We are alone in this terror, alone, face to face on this road, you and I, wrapped by this flame! Let the polished plows stay idle, their gloss already on the black soil. But that face of yours—! Answer me. I will clutch you. I will hug you, grip you. I will poke my face into your face and force you to see me. Take me in your arms, tell me the commonest thing that is in your mind to say, say anything. I will understand you—! It is the madness of the birch leaves opening cold, one by one. My rooms will receive me. But my rooms are no longer sweet spaces where comfort is ready to wait on me with its crumbs. A darkness has brushed them. The mass of yellow tulips in the bowl is shrunken. Every familiar object is changed and dwarfed. I am shaken, broken against a might that splits comfort, blows apart my careful partitions, crushes my house and leaves me—with shrinking heart and startled, empty eyes—peering out into a cold world. In the spring I would be drunk! In the spring I would be drunk and lie forgetting all things. Your face! Give me your face, Yang Kue Fei! your hands, your lips to drink! Give me your wrists to drink— I drag you, I am drowned in you, you overwhelm me! Drink! Save me! The shad bush is in the edge of the clearing. The yards in a fury of lilac blossoms are driving me mad with terror. Drink and lie forgetting the world. And coldly the birch leaves are opening one by one. Coldly I observe them and wait for the end. And it ends.
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...are a study on a subject matter that someone else has undertaken on your behalf.
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Mar 23, 2018
Mar 23, 2018 at 10:35 AM UTC
Books
The ship(notified) lost leisurely drifts over waves westwards, "Unhurried hereafter" is the slogan written on it's mast it would seem to an onlooker. A net is cast wide, to catch as much fish as the tired crew now needs. Each furious wave that rushes towards the ship changes tack, proclaims a frothy message of peace. No more communication exchanges causing disturbances, no hurry any more. None waits for the lost ship, in any distant shore, with a binocular, or spanning a Radar, uneasily . The crew had already forgotten every mission undertaken before. It has no schedule, deadlines, plan the ship feels more buyout than ever before ,just floats along, as if it's a tranquil thought, towards the direction where the purple sun prepares to set dramatically. Accompanied by two astonished whales, sailing along like two mates, the ship, now a lone wolf,with a hidden yearning has become more alive, once declared lost.
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Nov 9, 2015
Nov 9, 2015 at 1:36 PM UTC
The lost ship, more than alive
We look upon the water and we see- Among the sticks and twigs of chaos’ reign- The type of person that we long to be. The changes undertaken are in vain, Beneath the surface creatures cry in pain- We look upon the water and we see The imperfections; all the things that feign The other’s interest, if we just became The type of person that we long to be... But as our eyes grow tired and necks crane And as our souls erupt in hatred’s flame, We look upon the water and we see... We see, through glasses fogged by pouring rain The looking glass that lies and causes pain, The type of person that we long to be. Our imperfections cloud our views, they reign Upon us and make misery a game- We look upon the water and we see The type of person that we long to be.
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Apr 24, 2015
Apr 24, 2015 at 6:02 PM UTC
Ripples
A heat I could no longer tolerate.  I gulped from the bottle as sweat drenched my brow.   The lines had been drawn.  Arbitary divisions separating positions.  Journeys were to be undertaken, 'long is the road' was the chant. Tibetian prayer flags flapped in the winds. Abandoned newspapers whirled as if suspended on strings. Wake up! The bottle was empty.  Our time had arrived.  Hearts were beating.  This day was sublime.
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Sep 8, 2018
Sep 8, 2018 at 2:42 AM UTC
Bewitching
At weekends in mid-August if the weather sunny A girl dresses in bright fluorescent pink socks The sort sold three in a pack at the local market Puts on her best T- bar white shoes and is ready. A family outing which included a younger brother; And a bundle of toys, cricket bat and picnic bags The train went from Tooting Bec to Mordon station And from there a tiring walk was undertaken. Delightful it was with the cow- parsley and crickets Red Admiral butterflies and leaf blossom on the trees The siblings, only eighteen months apart, thought They could barely wait to arrive at their special spot. And so they did, well before one o’clock, in high spirits Racing the river as it flowed hidden behind iron railings Nettles in the tall grass and air scented meadow- sweet To the trunk improvised seat by The Wandle . Love Mary x '
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Nov 20, 2018
Nov 20, 2018 at 10:04 AM UTC
A Special seat. First version
Read between the lines running theme running in and out and inbetween moments in my life. Taunting me is Miss Mystery and her sweet moments of ecstacy carry me to questions of implied imagery. The space between each line I write and read; each line I wait on, drive on; each line I listen between; each line spoken to and from me- Endless misunderstanding undertaking me. Undertaken me! We never say We never sing what we really mean. We never reach a destination on these lines driven between. The answer is hiding for her benefit. The answer has Nothing to do with you Nothing to do with me Us, barbaric human beings being  arrogant with the lines we speak. Arrogance thriving between lines paved with housing establishments while the space between mountain ranges sits vibrant, patient. All made of sunshine All made of peace of mind All made between the thin line of atmosphere. I actively disrupt her. Mindlessly disregarding the space between lines. I act so possessively towards this life of mine. Yet, observant I try to be. Silent I try to be. And I try to read between the lines my mind project before my eyes. My eyes: with lines protruding from all sides, when I'm the least bit pleased. Oh, least bit of knowledge I've gained from these meditative rants that my subconscious recalls only when there are no designated lines to write between. Lack of lines let's my subconscious free. Selfish as each human being; each human being free I wait more or less patiently, for someone to read between my worn eye-lines correctly. Englightenment I wait to want me or, wait to watch me. I wait for the nameless to see me. Desire's undertaking me, Undertaken me! I never say, I never sing, what I really mean. Desire turned nameless me needy. Me, the Nameless human being Nameless between lines of Nameless Humans being free, being greedy.
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Jan 24, 2013
Jan 24, 2013 at 5:59 PM UTC
Read Between the Lines
Read between the lines running theme running in and out and inbetween moments in my life. Taunting me is Miss Mystery and her sweet moments of ecstacy carry me to questions of implied imagery. The space between each line I write and read; each line I wait on, drive on; each line I listen between; each line spoken to and from me- Endless misunderstanding undertaking me. Undertaken me! We never say We never sing what we really mean. We never reach a destination on these lines driven between. The answer is hiding for her benefit. The answer has Nothing to do with you Nothing to do with me Us, barbaric human beings being  arrogant with the lines we speak. Arrogance thriving between lines paved with housing establishments while the space between mountain ranges sits vibrant, patient. All made of sunshine All made of peace of mind All made between the thin line of atmosphere. I actively disrupt her. Mindlessly disregarding the space between lines. I act so possessively towards this life of mine. Yet, observant I try to be. Silent I try to be. And I try to read between the lines my mind project before my eyes. My eyes: with lines protruding from all sides, when I'm the least bit pleased. Oh, least bit of knowledge I've gained from these meditative rants that my subconscious recalls only when there are no designated lines to write between. Lack of lines let's my subconscious free. Selfish as each human being; each human being free I wait more or less patiently, for someone to read between my worn eye-lines correctly. Englightenment I wait to want me or, wait to watch me. I wait for the nameless to see me. Desire's undertaking me, Undertaken me! I never say, I never sing, what I really mean. Desire turned nameless me needy. Me, the Nameless human being Nameless between lines of Nameless Humans being free, being greedy.
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The horizon is the impossible goal. * It is the goal of trying to catch up with the sun, trying to surpass the infinite boundary that exists only from the limitations of the eye. * It is the goal that takes years of labor and toil, and when it seems like it will soon be over, it always sets itself further out of reach. * It is the goal, simple and straightforward at present, but winding and demanding the further along the path one goes. * It is the goal that must be undertaken alone, regardless of how many are on the path with you. * It is the goal that is always present, even in times of rest, the one that looms over you, stalking you like prey, hunting you when you aren't hunting it. * It is the goal whose journey many have taken, but none have returned from. * It is the goal which, after having been attained, is rumored to reward you in ways that will continue to manifest far into the future. It is the goal that you can never attain, and yet you must cross the horizon. It is the goal that you must attain, and yet you can never cross the horizon. * You can never cross the horizon, only perpetuate the hunt for what lies over it. * You can never cross the horizon, and you constantly remind yourself of this when you insanely continue to run through the toil of the process. * You can never cross the horizon, but in the quest for it, you are forced to make alliances, work with others to catapult yourselves across the same goal. * You can never cross the horizon, but the effort to do so leaves you with a stronger sense of self, knowing how you react in the face of adversity, and understanding how the journey shapes you. * You can never cross the horizon, yet you refuse to quit when each trial bends the bones of your back, when every step shreds the skin on your feet, when the heat cooks and boils your brain, when all the nerves in your being direct your heart to stop, except that one, that lonely one, that one which refuses to quit. * You can never cross the horizon, and as the sun shrinks deeper, the hunt becomes more and more desperate with every step. * You can never cross the horizon; in trying, you will only exhaust all of the resources and time that is given to you, all of the energy and strength that was left in you, and all of the creativity and ingenuity that was built in you. You can never cross the horizon. Until you do. And when you cross the horizon... The rest is up to you to write...
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Apr 13, 2011
Apr 13, 2011 at 3:11 AM UTC
The Impossible Goal
The horizon is the impossible goal. * It is the goal of trying to catch up with the sun, trying to surpass the infinite boundary that exists only from the limitations of the eye. * It is the goal that takes years of labor and toil, and when it seems like it will soon be over, it always sets itself further out of reach. * It is the goal, simple and straightforward at present, but winding and demanding the further along the path one goes. * It is the goal that must be undertaken alone, regardless of how many are on the path with you. * It is the goal that is always present, even in times of rest, the one that looms over you, stalking you like prey, hunting you when you aren't hunting it. * It is the goal whose journey many have taken, but none have returned from. * It is the goal which, after having been attained, is rumored to reward you in ways that will continue to manifest far into the future. It is the goal that you can never attain, and yet you must cross the horizon. It is the goal that you must attain, and yet you can never cross the horizon. * You can never cross the horizon, only perpetuate the hunt for what lies over it. * You can never cross the horizon, and you constantly remind yourself of this when you insanely continue to run through the toil of the process. * You can never cross the horizon, but in the quest for it, you are forced to make alliances, work with others to catapult yourselves across the same goal. * You can never cross the horizon, but the effort to do so leaves you with a stronger sense of self, knowing how you react in the face of adversity, and understanding how the journey shapes you. * You can never cross the horizon, yet you refuse to quit when each trial bends the bones of your back, when every step shreds the skin on your feet, when the heat cooks and boils your brain, when all the nerves in your being direct your heart to stop, except that one, that lonely one, that one which refuses to quit. * You can never cross the horizon, and as the sun shrinks deeper, the hunt becomes more and more desperate with every step. * You can never cross the horizon; in trying, you will only exhaust all of the resources and time that is given to you, all of the energy and strength that was left in you, and all of the creativity and ingenuity that was built in you. You can never cross the horizon. Until you do. And when you cross the horizon... The rest is up to you to write...
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I stopped writing love poems when I met you, and started writing psalms instead: I took your lips as the body and your hips as the blood of a Holy Spirit you’ve been hiding in your eyes, your eyes, your eyes that I’ve been praying to worship, worship, worship. Some would call this feeling blasphemy, but since it is winter, I am willing to take a little trip down to hell to melt the cold in my bones, especially if that means I can walk you back to Heaven. But don’t take this all too seriously because I stopped writing love poems when I met you, and started writing psalms instead: I took your words as Gospel and raised them to my tongue and matched it with yours to bathe myself in your waters to wash away my sins- and yes, I am a sinner, for I have undertaken many a Crusade to prove myself worthy of you. But the blood of my enemies is your hips. The lips of those I have left for you is your body. And still in your hell I find Heaven. But don’t take this all too seriously because I stopped writing love poems when I met you.
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Feb 14, 2016
Feb 14, 2016 at 12:45 AM UTC
Valentine.
The birches are mad with green points the wood’s edge is burning with their green, burning, seething—No, no, no. The birches are opening their leaves one by one. Their delicate leaves unfold cold and separate, one by one. Slender tassels hang swaying from the delicate branch tips— Oh, I cannot say it. There is no word. Black is split at once into flowers. In every bog and ditch, flares of small fire, white flowers!—Agh, the birches are mad, mad with their green. The world is gone, torn into shreds with this blessing. What have I left undone that I should have undertaken? O my brother, you redfaced, living man ignorant, stupid whose feet are upon this same dirt that I touch—and eat. We are alone in this terror, alone, face to face on this road, you and I, wrapped by this flame! Let the polished plows stay idle, their gloss already on the black soil. But that face of yours—! Answer me. I will clutch you. I will hug you, grip you. I will poke my face into your face and force you to see me. Take me in your arms, tell me the commonest thing that is in your mind to say, say anything. I will understand you—! It is the madness of the birch leaves opening cold, one by one. My rooms will receive me. But my rooms are no longer sweet spaces where comfort is ready to wait on me with its crumbs. A darkness has brushed them. The mass of yellow tulips in the bowl is shrunken. Every familiar object is changed and dwarfed. I am shaken, broken against a might that splits comfort, blows apart my careful partitions, crushes my house and leaves me—with shrinking heart and startled, empty eyes—peering out into a cold world. In the spring I would be drunk! In the spring I would be drunk and lie forgetting all things. Your face! Give me your face, Yang Kue Fei! your hands, your lips to drink! Give me your wrists to drink— I drag you, I am drowned in you, you overwhelm me! Drink! Save me! The shad bush is in the edge of the clearing. The yards in a fury of lilac blossoms are driving me mad with terror. Drink and lie forgetting the world. And coldly the birch leaves are opening one by one. Coldly I observe them and wait for the end. And it ends.
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The birches are mad with green points the wood’s edge is burning with their green, burning, seething—No, no, no. The birches are opening their leaves one by one. Their delicate leaves unfold cold and separate, one by one. Slender tassels hang swaying from the delicate branch tips— Oh, I cannot say it. There is no word. Black is split at once into flowers. In every bog and ditch, flares of small fire, white flowers!—Agh, the birches are mad, mad with their green. The world is gone, torn into shreds with this blessing. What have I left undone that I should have undertaken? O my brother, you redfaced, living man ignorant, stupid whose feet are upon this same dirt that I touch—and eat. We are alone in this terror, alone, face to face on this road, you and I, wrapped by this flame! Let the polished plows stay idle, their gloss already on the black soil. But that face of yours—! Answer me. I will clutch you. I will hug you, grip you. I will poke my face into your face and force you to see me. Take me in your arms, tell me the commonest thing that is in your mind to say, say anything. I will understand you—! It is the madness of the birch leaves opening cold, one by one. My rooms will receive me. But my rooms are no longer sweet spaces where comfort is ready to wait on me with its crumbs. A darkness has brushed them. The mass of yellow tulips in the bowl is shrunken. Every familiar object is changed and dwarfed. I am shaken, broken against a might that splits comfort, blows apart my careful partitions, crushes my house and leaves me—with shrinking heart and startled, empty eyes—peering out into a cold world. In the spring I would be drunk! In the spring I would be drunk and lie forgetting all things. Your face! Give me your face, Yang Kue Fei! your hands, your lips to drink! Give me your wrists to drink— I drag you, I am drowned in you, you overwhelm me! Drink! Save me! The shad bush is in the edge of the clearing. The yards in a fury of lilac blossoms are driving me mad with terror. Drink and lie forgetting the world. And coldly the birch leaves are opening one by one. Coldly I observe them and wait for the end. And it ends.
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♠ ♠ ♠ Pseudo-Oriental visions Haiku, Tanka, exotic terms Vapid New Age vibe-transmissions proliferating eastern germs… Anarchistic thought collages Existential lacerations Nihilistic heart-massages Incoherent lamentations, Communism on a mission, grievance-mongering, stewed in hate; pounding Fascist fusion/fission chanting harshly “ours the state”, Hymns to Gods who choked on ***** undertaken in overdose; rocks that never rose to comet rolling – but ending comatose, Hipster ironies, tongue in chic Metro-wimps who feign the normal, Redneck rantings up the creek semaphoric,  semi-formal, matron’s maudlin observations, motivational hypnosis, (sentimental medications offered prior to diagnosis), coldly abstract neo-nonsense read (by dullards) as cutting edge, letters void of correspondence; well-trimmed words’ linguistic hedge. Climate whining (tried untrue) with eco-prophecies warning doom, Wiccans and tree-sprites trying to undo the curse and lift the gloom, Feministic tribal ranting, Race-complaining, agitation, GLBT gallivanting – all are blights upon our nation. Boring modernist excess, (no longer daring  –  formulaic) confounds –  yet never can address what’s wrong, and so becomes prosaic. Lists like this are perhaps  the worst; another symptom of our times: we who are woefully unversed in rhythmic complaining that rhymes.
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Sep 12, 2015
Sep 12, 2015 at 11:58 AM UTC
Stuff Poetry Hates:
Find the hardest possible thing you could do, and do that, the heaviest possible thing you could lift, and lift that, the most taxing responsibility in your grasp, and take that on. Do you think it is by pure chance that warriors are forged in fire? What of their blood sacrifices? Challenge your barriers; do not let them sit indeterminable. Life is not the pursuit of happiness; life is the pursuit of the cessation of suffering. Do you think love is a blessing? In some ways, perhaps, but let's not forget the responsibility we must bear when another soul is entrusted to us. What greater compliment is there than that? To say, you, no matter your faults and troubles, you are the person in which I will spend my life with, come hell, come the high waters of the flood, you are the only one I want. And to bear children, to bring children into a dismal world such as this, filled with wretched suffering and anguish, such a thing is not an act of foolishness when undertaken voluntarily, it is an act of supreme courage. We are not meant to be happy in this life, we are built for struggle, to strive and to break through the top soil and reach the light of day. We must bear our cross, however heavy, however unfair, and continue on.
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Jan 8, 2019
Jan 8, 2019 at 4:49 PM UTC
Responsibility
Each of us is on a journey For each the journey is different Filled with unimaginable suffering Pain the likes of which you will never experience For the burdens upon the traveler Wear them down mind, body and soul Although do not despair For the fate of man is not So simply painful Along this journey You will find treasures The likes of which Are beyond the mere imagination of men I speak not of precious stones Nor of fantastical wealth Made of currency or jewel But of precious memories And fantastical dreams Made reality by your will The hero of this journey Is endowed with a great gift That of being given the opportunity To prove just how possible Impossible can be This epic, However, Must be undertaken alone Each monumental action, Each life-changing idea, Each imperative decision Must be decided by you You alone Are burdened by bearing responsibility For the fate of the journey Though you will travel with others We all have our own path They may cross or even join for a time But ultimately every path is its own No two the same And although each journey May differ They all have the same outcome-- They end.
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Dec 24, 2014
Dec 24, 2014 at 1:10 AM UTC
A Perilous Journey
the city's moon                                                    fixated in its peoples tics and behaviour                     crass and mentally fractured traction acts the loony satellite makes sway for rude construction                                                             padding our ego psychology nothing    simple    allowed we are all a manic reference of each other the city weather is steered                                      by currents of gossip withhold your info                culture clutches misguiding alliances     treasure your details                                                                     it is your only insurance this city                                             it's a view to thrill                                                            but it odors me til ill ****** privacy and get undressed too much time here   harbouring thirst       quibbling hurt feelings                                    signals ;  Life Emitting Distress so                                                     lock up the night city stars                                                   mar-glaring bulbs of pity-me                           staring about for vagrancy i flip up my hood              lucent pandery eyes span the communal routes    search us out       merchandise and mood i turn down an alleyway and am confronted                                           a vain and voyeuristic fan tail varieties cocktail of sales and entertainment ad lights send out sonar 'pings' wing-ed ; fencing judgement i wear pricy contacts to veil my retinas and my hood is lined with aluminium      i cough and concentrate on breath commemorate each step undertaken weaponize my walk eyes low my being is voided into guise heading further from the city centre i can straighten from my defensive pose in amongst the dwellings                            the urban effect dwindles kindled   instead   by the dosey soup wash of streetlights delights;   the holy crop of them webbing outward    retching past our boundaries                         shored back upon natures breath                       (so i imagine)
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Nov 8, 2022
Nov 8, 2022 at 9:03 PM UTC
c i t y L.E.D.s
the city's moon                                                    fixated in its peoples tics and behaviour                     crass and mentally fractured traction acts the loony satellite makes sway for rude construction                                                             padding our ego psychology nothing    simple    allowed we are all a manic reference of each other the city weather is steered                                      by currents of gossip withhold your info                culture clutches misguiding alliances     treasure your details                                                                     it is your only insurance this city                                             it's a view to thrill                                                            but it odors me til ill ****** privacy and get undressed too much time here   harbouring thirst       quibbling hurt feelings                                    signals ;  Life Emitting Distress so                                                     lock up the night city stars                                                   mar-glaring bulbs of pity-me                           staring about for vagrancy i flip up my hood              lucent pandery eyes span the communal routes    search us out       merchandise and mood i turn down an alleyway and am confronted                                           a vain and voyeuristic fan tail varieties cocktail of sales and entertainment ad lights send out sonar 'pings' wing-ed ; fencing judgement i wear pricy contacts to veil my retinas and my hood is lined with aluminium      i cough and concentrate on breath commemorate each step undertaken weaponize my walk eyes low my being is voided into guise heading further from the city centre i can straighten from my defensive pose in amongst the dwellings                            the urban effect dwindles kindled   instead   by the dosey soup wash of streetlights delights;   the holy crop of them webbing outward    retching past our boundaries                         shored back upon natures breath                       (so i imagine)
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the small wooden floor room where she spreads her trinkets her mystery box spells and potions in tiny bottles she lay there amidst her tokens and treasures and sings softly along with a song that plays in the distance on a radio a song that speaks to her of simpler times and beautiful people of a better world we all left behind decades ago a world she could rejoin if she belived hard enough the days when she holds enough hope there is a smile and she faces out towards the sun but i dread the days when she captures a glance at the reflection   of her fast vanishing days and how little things have changed in her life her smile is gone on thouse days her face is a shadow i must carry her through days like that she needs my strength to keep from getting trapped the crisp blue skies frame the giant oak tree that we lay under leaves float down here and there with vivid fall color you can taste fall in the air you can feel it in the texture of her conversation as she talks of hallows eve and Christmas William Tell Ivanhoe and Chaucer its the season for dinner theater its the season for a bottle of red wine in the sand by the river and the tales to be told grand ventures to be undertaken in bold and fast words alone she takes your hand and with a deep smile touches your lips with her fingertip and begins to speak but you never get to hear what she would have said you awaken sheets soaked in sweat twenty years on and she still visits you near every night sometimes its her on the beach where she died sometimes its the weeks that lead up to that godforsaken day twenty years twenty years twenty years
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Aug 10, 2013
Aug 10, 2013 at 2:53 PM UTC
potions in tiny bottles
the small wooden floor room where she spreads her trinkets her mystery box spells and potions in tiny bottles she lay there amidst her tokens and treasures and sings softly along with a song that plays in the distance on a radio a song that speaks to her of simpler times and beautiful people of a better world we all left behind decades ago a world she could rejoin if she belived hard enough the days when she holds enough hope there is a smile and she faces out towards the sun but i dread the days when she captures a glance at the reflection   of her fast vanishing days and how little things have changed in her life her smile is gone on thouse days her face is a shadow i must carry her through days like that she needs my strength to keep from getting trapped the crisp blue skies frame the giant oak tree that we lay under leaves float down here and there with vivid fall color you can taste fall in the air you can feel it in the texture of her conversation as she talks of hallows eve and Christmas William Tell Ivanhoe and Chaucer its the season for dinner theater its the season for a bottle of red wine in the sand by the river and the tales to be told grand ventures to be undertaken in bold and fast words alone she takes your hand and with a deep smile touches your lips with her fingertip and begins to speak but you never get to hear what she would have said you awaken sheets soaked in sweat twenty years on and she still visits you near every night sometimes its her on the beach where she died sometimes its the weeks that lead up to that godforsaken day twenty years twenty years twenty years
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I need to go to the grave yard, need to dig some dirt. Make a nest for sleep. Let the dirt infuse into me. Infuse with me and the dead. I want crosses on my forehead. My forehead mounded upon with dust, the soil of all this West Texas, impacted upon my chest, and the sticks of skeletons shall ***** my flesh. Make me parts of them. Splinters, perfect spacing, spectral spines. Barrow injecting me with creativity. We all come from the particles left of, by the demise of life. We are leftovers of after thoughts, left in attics, filled with soot in peoples minds. Then I can make art. Then I can cut out snow, to shapes of stars. Tin man in the ground, grows rust as he settles into moist dirt. He wont grow any more like a plant. But as sugar in the ground he rust and melts, oxidates into nothing, then transmuting into, crystals. This is cemetery life. I need to go to the grave yard. So I can make a home. Build me a little mistress, make a family in her bones. The cottage that we build there, will have ivy, we'll have friends, the gates of it will say welcome sir, madam death waits to have you in. Drinking milk thistle tea, dancing waltzes in the fog light. Diffusing in the spectral photons, bowing down to afterlife. Kissing the lips of the grave yard. Opens the doors, hands extend. I need to go to the grave yard. So I can find a place, I fit in.
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Mar 23, 2013
Mar 23, 2013 at 1:03 AM UTC
Undertaken
fuzzy buzzy flickering light fixtures court me for days - tired, unlatched and in a daze broken hinges hang from untapped doorways, painted with shattered looking glasses and laces overthrowing unseen faces crawling at ungodly paces, blind red rages boil over onto sentient pages to die on unlit stages, reeking with rows of rotting audiences, decomposing millions of masterpieces. sleepless death undertaken, like a sorry soul, to a hole new level six breaths under reborn into a dogs tail clenched between it's own teeth.
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Oct 25, 2014
Oct 25, 2014 at 9:03 AM UTC
Valiant Valerian
Erasure & Found Poem from "On Photography By Teju Cole in april 16th new york times magazine -- You were The fast moving disaster of a tsunami added to the slow motion disaster of a nuclear calamity Towns flooded Infrastructure wrecked Forests splintered more than 15,000 people dead. earthquake cut off my external power supply Floodwaters damaged my backup generators Disabled it's cooling system Overheating ensued Fuel in three reactor cores melted Releasing radiation Everyone saw The water coming in The roads swept away Towns and harbors destroyed Extensive documentary work was undertaken by photographers Of the ruins, Debris, Cleanup and relief operations The gut-wrentching scale of destruction The professionalism of the emergency crews The fortitude of the survivers The extreme uncertainty I feel in our current political moment helps me understand for the first time the curious twinship of mourning and premonition. Information about the tragedy Sorrow for the suffering it caused Gratitude for the work that makes sorrow visible Foreboding about the future. An alert flashes your phone Something terrible has happened Far away, a flood, an airstrike, Soon, there's footage of people picking through wreckage what used to be their homes It is easy to pity them Difficult to imagine this will be you Suddenly bereft of a solid place in the world. Listening to anything that touches on the sublime makes me apprehensive. Like The silence that greets us waking in the middle of the night
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Apr 17, 2017
Apr 17, 2017 at 12:57 AM UTC
Erasure & Found Poem from "On Photography By Teju Cole in april 16th new york times magazine
Erasure & Found Poem from "On Photography By Teju Cole in april 16th new york times magazine -- You were The fast moving disaster of a tsunami added to the slow motion disaster of a nuclear calamity Towns flooded Infrastructure wrecked Forests splintered more than 15,000 people dead. earthquake cut off my external power supply Floodwaters damaged my backup generators Disabled it's cooling system Overheating ensued Fuel in three reactor cores melted Releasing radiation Everyone saw The water coming in The roads swept away Towns and harbors destroyed Extensive documentary work was undertaken by photographers Of the ruins, Debris, Cleanup and relief operations The gut-wrentching scale of destruction The professionalism of the emergency crews The fortitude of the survivers The extreme uncertainty I feel in our current political moment helps me understand for the first time the curious twinship of mourning and premonition. Information about the tragedy Sorrow for the suffering it caused Gratitude for the work that makes sorrow visible Foreboding about the future. An alert flashes your phone Something terrible has happened Far away, a flood, an airstrike, Soon, there's footage of people picking through wreckage what used to be their homes It is easy to pity them Difficult to imagine this will be you Suddenly bereft of a solid place in the world. Listening to anything that touches on the sublime makes me apprehensive. Like The silence that greets us waking in the middle of the night
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From the top of her long, silky hairs To her beautiful, sun-licked, shining face To the tip of her soft, curved ******* To midway between her sweet, warm thighs To the bottom of her long, strong feet She is one great puzzle A great treasure to be hunted A mystery to be admired A land to be explored A journey to be undertaken
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Jan 19, 2015
Jan 19, 2015 at 7:52 AM UTC
A GREAT PUZZLE
if only life was less complicated if only feelings could be undertaken if only you would comprehend if only dreams could become true without a tribute such as you ...
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Jan 21, 2015
Jan 21, 2015 at 7:25 PM UTC
what if
An unknown artist's heart speaks on this subway wall my mind drifts to the scene of creation, possibly this: in amazement I look at that cat,at my face she looks up and understands, this feline inaugurates the incidental show of spontaneous art, at this street, just waking up shedding sleep a ball collaborates with her,bouncing around with such verve, spreading cheer,wholeheartedly, so strange for an object like it which is not something even intended by anyone                                                                            Art has a right to happen, like this, the morning sun, by nature, provides support, from a long, long distance, the effect electrifies the scene the cat, looking up by the magic of the moment,sees rays of sun filtering through the foliage,can she imagine the distance sun rays travel, to play with her, with such grace? A lonely man, captures the scene,as a graffiti, within engraved, one can imagine from the way he looks pleased, don't you miss the mixed up pigments on his fingers, unmistakable glee divine of an underground artist decidedly flashes across his face, not for him, but to express the pain  unmitigated, all through his life he'll pack his things,stuff in a small bag and leave this place. A moment of exhilaration for many, when they see his essence, spread across the subway train, in colors of protest, rooted in his mourning art,experience of the hour created, yes there are consequences for the art,the cat, the illuminating sun, the onlookers around, including me,are not to be concerned, only he and his brothers in art, taking part in this attack for him, this moment of enlightenment,is reward enough for all the adventures, he had undertaken till now.
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Mar 27, 2015
Mar 27, 2015 at 4:04 PM UTC
A right, art has, to happen like this..
An unknown artist's heart speaks on this subway wall my mind drifts to the scene of creation, possibly this: in amazement I look at that cat,at my face she looks up and understands, this feline inaugurates the incidental show of spontaneous art, at this street, just waking up shedding sleep a ball collaborates with her,bouncing around with such verve, spreading cheer,wholeheartedly, so strange for an object like it which is not something even intended by anyone                                                                            Art has a right to happen, like this, the morning sun, by nature, provides support, from a long, long distance, the effect electrifies the scene the cat, looking up by the magic of the moment,sees rays of sun filtering through the foliage,can she imagine the distance sun rays travel, to play with her, with such grace? A lonely man, captures the scene,as a graffiti, within engraved, one can imagine from the way he looks pleased, don't you miss the mixed up pigments on his fingers, unmistakable glee divine of an underground artist decidedly flashes across his face, not for him, but to express the pain  unmitigated, all through his life he'll pack his things,stuff in a small bag and leave this place. A moment of exhilaration for many, when they see his essence, spread across the subway train, in colors of protest, rooted in his mourning art,experience of the hour created, yes there are consequences for the art,the cat, the illuminating sun, the onlookers around, including me,are not to be concerned, only he and his brothers in art, taking part in this attack for him, this moment of enlightenment,is reward enough for all the adventures, he had undertaken till now.
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